Who is Mr. Richard Cook and what is his position at British National Lottery?

Question

What is the position of Mr.Richard Cook at theBritish National Lottery? and why he sent me such email message?is that a scam?

BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
PO Box 1010 Liverpool L70 1NL,
United Kingdom

ATTN: Winner,

I am Mr. RICHARD COOK your claims officer and i am in receipt of your recent email regarding the claim of the just concluded British National Lottery Email Online Promotion.Your application for claim of lottery winning prize is under process and full settlement will be made upon certification of your details.

This is a promotional draw which officially launches the new system. With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws,payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time.

This correspondence officially confirms that we are in receipt of instructions relating to the payment of your lottery winnings. Please complete the form below with correct information and email back to us with a return email or via the fax number below. Looking forward to your swift response.

Yours Faithfully,
RICHARD COOK
Fax: [phone]
Phone Number :+ +44-703-19

Answer 1

You CANNOT win the UK National Lottery unless you have bought a ticket to play!!!

Answer 2

There is no way to win the lottery in the UK without paying to play. See link for the official UK National Lottery site, and what they have to say about it.

The UK National Lottery is one of the richest and most successful lotteries in the world. They have nothing to gain from taking random amounts of money from the prize pool and handing it out like candy to random people in foreign countries who have never paid to play. What would the purpose of such a scheme? To raise awareness of a lottery that you are not eligible to play? That's just dumb.

Also another hallmark of these scams is the poor English. The email is badly written and looks to have been written by someone who speaks English as a second language. You can be quite sure that official notifications like this (were they to exist) would be written in a fluid and professional manner.

Answer 3

It's a Scam! This is the real Richard Cook

Richard Cook (born 1957) is a British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive. Cook was born in Kew and has continued to live in West London since then. He is co-author, with Brian Morton, of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (formerly ...on CD), now in its eighth edition. Richard Cook's Jazz Companion was published in 2005.

A writer on music since the late 1970s, he has been a prominent contributor to the NME, the jazz critic for The Sunday Times and more recently music writer for the New Statesman. Cook was formerly editor of The Wire, when it was a jazz centred periodical, and has edited Jazz Review magazine since its foundation in 1998.

Richard Cook was formerly the UK jazz catalogue manager for PolyGram (1992-97) and has also produced albums by the trumpeter Guy Barker. During his spell at PolyGram, Cook launched the short-lived Redial reissue line of classic British jazz albums. In 2002, he was responsible for issuing a 10 CD limited-edition set by the American avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor of 1990 recordings, 2Ts for a Lovely T, which was on the Codanza label.

Answer 4

it is a big scam any ways here you go in check this out

If the email says ‘Winning Notification’ or ‘Lottery Sweep Stake’ in the text, the email you’ve received is not from UK National Lottery;
We don’t tell players how much they've won in an email; and
We don’t ask for any Player information like name, address or bank details on an email.
There is no need to contact us if you have received a lottery related scam (fraudulent) email.
As we are constantly looking to improve our communication with our players, we have now changed all our email addresses to the following:

admin@national—lottery.co.uk

player@national—lottery.co.uk

play@national—lottery.co.uk

help@national—lottery.co.uk

[e-mail]—lottery.co.uk

the number that you have at the bottom of your screen is not a real number any ways you need to check out your computer for virus in trojan it is a big scam going on all the time are a hacker will rob you blind for ever thing they can get from your computer in the guy that check it out for you saying that he was born in 1957 is true in a jazz player in he was born in england but does not have any thing to do with the lottery at all ever so there you go in good luck with scammer yuk lol

Answer 5

It's a scam it's a scam it's a scam it's a scam!! For God's sake is everyone in the world this thick?! That's 3000 euros you'll never see again, mate. No one, absolutely no one, asks for cash to send you a LEGITIMATE prize, and why would anyone who you've won cash from need cash to send you a bloody cheque? You're a conman's wet dream, mon amis. Sadly I can't remember the French for 'you fool' but since your English is ok, you should get it anyway.

Answer 6

He's the guy that sits in his secret office, plays computer games all day, and has an assistant that goes and gets him whatever he wants....